Countries
India
China, Nepal
National Language
India
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Not Available
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
- Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
- Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
Similar To
Old German Language
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Derived From
Prakrit Language
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Alphabets in
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Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Devanagari
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
शुभः सायंकालः
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
शुभ दुपार
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
कृपया (kripayā)
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Not present
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Not Available
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Not present
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Not Available
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Not present
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Not Available
China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Not Available
Native Name
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Not Available
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
sanskrit
tibétain
German Name
Sanskrit
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Not Available
tibetan people
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Indic
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Early Forms
Vedic Sanskrit
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Sanskrit
Standard Tibetan
Signed Forms
Not Available
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
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ISO 639 6
Not Available
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Glottocode
sans1269
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Language Type
Ancient
Not Available
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Not Available
Sanskrit and Tibetan Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Sanskrit and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Sanskrit and Tibetan language. Sanskrit word for "Hello" is नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ) or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Sanskrit Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Sanskrit vs Tibetan Difficulty
The Sanskrit vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Sanskrit Alphabets and Tibetan Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Sanskrit and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Sanskrit and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Sanskrit is 20 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.